Waste-valve-regulating device.



No. 674,507. Patented May 2|, l90l. J. A. HOLLENBERGER.

WASTE VALVE REGULATING DEVICE.

(Application fliedAug. 18, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN A. HOLLENBERGER, OF HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.

WASTE-VALVE-REG U LATING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,507, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed August 13,1900. Serial No. 27,316. (it, met-.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN A. HOLLENBER- GER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Hagerstown, in the county of Washington and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Waste-Valve- Regulat-ing Devices; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in washbowl attachments; and it relates especially to improvements upon the construction of apparatus upon which I have been granted Letters Patent in the United States, said patent being numbered 651,355, in which improvement I provide a device for removing the plug from the waste-outlet passage-Way without raising the plug, whereby the plug is drawn sidewise from over the outlet, the plug being loosely but fixedly held to the lower end of the springrod and held yieldingly against the bottom of the bowl at all times, either when the plug is seated over the outlet-passage or not.

My invention will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters'of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which drawings- Figure l is a perspective view of my invention shown as attached to a bowl. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the bowl, the attachment being shown partially in elevation and partly in section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail View of the upper portion of the device.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the plug, made up of the thick washer A flat upon its upper face,- the second washer A between which and the washer A a rubber disk A is held by means of the screw B, having an aperture in its head, said screw passing through registering apertures in the washers. The lower end of said screw engages the threads in the aperture in said hemispherical washer. The lower face of said washeris made of the shape shown, so that as the plug is pushed down toward the outlet passage-way at the bottom of the bowl it will naturally slide down and automatically seat itself over the passage-way.

Secured to the top of the washbowl or marble slab is a plate E, which is slotted at E, and a screw or bolt F, passed through said slot in the slab, is provided to hold said plate in an adjusted position longitudinally. The opposite edges of said plate are provided with ribs e, which make the plate rigid, and the inner end of the plate has an angled extension G, which is downwardly disposed and longitudinally grooved, as'at G.

By constructing a plate in accordance with my invention it will be apparent that the device may be easily applied to either new or old slabs or bowls. Within the groove G is fastened one end of the spring K, the free end of which spring is raised a slight distance from the bottom of the groove.

The spring-rod C, which has its lower end fixedly secured to the head of the screw B, is designed to be held in said groove G yieldingly against the spring therein, the rod being retained in place by a plate H, and said plate being held by means of the recessed lugs G. The rod, it will be observed, is thus frictionally held between the spring and said plate at any location.

For limiting the upward throw of the rod 0 an apertured lug N is mounted on the rod and may be held in any adjusted position on the rod by means of a set-screw. The upper end of the rod C is preferably equipped with a knob with set-screw, which is applied to the rod after the length of the latter has been determined for the particular bowl to which it is to be attached.

To prevent lateral movement of the plate E, a screw S may be passed through the plate and into a registering aperture in the slab.

In operation it will be observed that when the attachment is applied to a washbowl or slab the rod 0 will conform to the shape of the bowl, and the upper portion of the rod, where it passes through said groove G in the plate, will be held yieldingly against the spring, while the tension of the rod 0 will cause the plug to be held tightly against the bottom of the bowl. When the rod C is at its lowest throw, the plug will be held seated against the bottom of the bowl and over the outlet passage-way water-tight. In opening the waste-outlet the operator, instead of raising the plug vertically, as is commonly done, merely raises the rod'U, and the plug, which is yieldingly held over the outlet-passage, will be withdrawn from the outlet, the lower portion of the plug binding against the bottom of the bowl all of the while. Owing to the frictional con tact between the rod, the spring, and the plate H, the rod may be held at any location desired, and when it is proposed to close the outlet-passage the operator merely presses upon the knob upon the upper end of the rod 0 and the plug will slide downward over the curved face of the bowl and will be seated over the" outlet-passage.

It is my purpose to apply my improved apparatus for operating the plug of waste-outlets of bowls to any of the various forms of bowls in common use and which were not originally made for the attachment.

When it is desired to remove the rod, it may be easily done by simply sliding out the plate H, which the pressure from the rod 0 bearing against the spring normally holds in place.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A Washbowl attachment, consisting of a flexible rod bent to conform to the inside shape of the how], a plug secured to the lower end of the rod, a plate secured to the upper edge of the bowl or slab and having a grooved, angled, downward extension, a spring within said groove having one of its ends secured to the bottom of the groove, a removable plate carried by said angled downward extension bet-ween which plate and spring the rod Ois designed to be frictionally held at difierent vertical points of adjustment, or locations, as set forth.

2. In combination with a bowl and slab therefor, aplate held to said slab and having a grooved extension, a spring seated in grooved extension, a rod 0 held against said spring, and a removable sliding plate held by said extension, and against which plate the rod 0 is held by said spring, as set forth.

3. In combination with the plate and means for holding same to the slab of the Washbowl, an angled downward extension of said plate which is grooved and provided with recessed ears on its edge, asliding plate fitted in said ears, the spring, and the rod held yieldingly between the spring and said sliding plate, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. I-IOLLENBERGER.

Witnesses:

HARVEY H. HEYSER, CHAS. EDWD. HILLIARD. 

